Social & Cultural History

This book studies how the act of migration is a motivating constituent in the production of popular culture in both the homeland and the destinatio...

Analyzing Indian women's groups as one sector of a complex of new grass-roots, non-party political movements, Dr. Caiman considers why and how a wo...

This book gathers contributions on the topic of astrology in the West during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from 19142022. It is the fir...

This is the first critical work on the history of the French Riviera from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day in the English ...

In Carnalities, Mariana Ortega presents a phenomenological study of aesthetics grounded in the work of primarily Latinx artists. She introduces the...

The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or e...

This book studies British cultural engagement with Napoleon Bonaparte from his 1815 surrender and time in British custody, until the return of his ...

Modern psychiatry is firmly rooted in antecedents from classical antiquity, from the ancient Greek concept of therapeutics of the soul (an ancient ...

Modern psychiatry is firmly rooted in antecedents from classical antiquity, from the ancient Greek concept of therapeutics of the soul (an ancient ...

Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America.   For one hundred and sixty-nine years...

In Carnalities, Mariana Ortega presents a phenomenological study of aesthetics grounded in the work of primarily Latinx artists. She introduces the...

This volume approaches the topic of mobility in Southeast Europe by offering the first detailed historical study of the land route connecting Istan...

The Wars of Religion embroiled France in decades of faction, violence, and peacemaking in the late sixteenth century. This study offers a new histo...

An Introduction to the Amphibians of Ecuador is the first of four volumes, which are comprehensive, well-illustrated, and authoritative works, maki...

This book offers a historical analysis of the landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies...

Television before TV rethinks the history of interwar television by exploring the mediums numerous demonstrations organized at national fairs and i...

Currently, defamation and disparagement may appear omnipresent. But phenomena of invective are not restricted to the contemporary world, by any mea...